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Saloviita, Timo – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2018
Facilitated communication (FC) has been interpreted as an ideomotor phenomenon, in which one person physically supports another person's hand and unconsciously affects the content of the writing. Despite the strong experimental evidence against the authenticity of FC output, several studies claim to support its validity based on idiosyncrasies…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Literature Reviews
Siegel, Ilene S.; And Others – 1994
This paper addresses questions raised about the validity of facilitated communication with autistic individuals and others having severe disabilities and offers examples from the authors' program to support the validity of facilitated communication. Published studies showing a high rate of unfounded claims of abuse under facilitated communication…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Autism, Interpersonal Communication, Research Methodology